Control of speed modulation (chemokinesis) in the unidirectional rotary motor of Sinorhizobium meliloti

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 708-718

  Attmannspacher, Ursula ^a   Scharf, Birgit ^a   Schmitt, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CELL MOTION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMOKINESIS; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; ROTATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TORQUE; VELOCITY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ELECTROSTATICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUTATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 17644424590     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04565.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Berg, H.C. (2003) The rotary motor of bacterial flagella. Annu Rev Biochem 72: 19-54.
2. Blair, D.F., and Berg, H.C. (1988) Restoration of torque in defective flagellar motors. Science 242: 1678-1681.
3. Braun, T.F., and Blair, D.F. (2001) Targeted disulfide cross-linking of the MotB protein of Escherichia coli: evidence for two H(+) channels in the stator complex. Biochemistry 40: 13051-13059.
4. Braun, T.F., Poulson, S., Gully, J.B., Empey, J.C., Van Way, S., Putnam, A., and Blair, D.F. (1999) Function of proline residues of MotA in torque generation by the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 181: 3542-3551.
5. Bren, A., and Eisenbach, M. (2000) How signals are heard during bacterial chemotaxis: protein-protein interactions in sensory signal propagation. J Bacteriol 182: 6865-6873.
6. Brown, S., Pool, P.S., Jeziorska, W., and Armitage, J.P. (1993) Chemokinesis in Rhodobacter sphaeroides is the result of a long term increase in the rate of flagellar rotation. Biochim Biophys Acta 1141: 309-312.
7. Brown, P.N., Hill, C.P., and Blair, D.F. (2002) Crystal structure of the middle and C-terminal domains of the flagellar rotor protein FliG. EMBO J 21: 3225-3234.
8. Devereux, J., Haeberli, P., and Smithies, O. (1984) A comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs for the VAX. Nucleic Acids Res 12: 387-395.
9. Francis, N.R., Sosinsky, G.E., Thomas, D., and DeRosier, D.J. (1994) Isolation, characterization and structure of bacterial flagellar motors containing the switch complex. J Mol Biol 235: 1261-1270.
10. Garza, A.G., Biran, R., Wohlschlegel, J.A., and Manson, M.D. (1996) Mutations in motB suppressible by changes in stator or rotor components of the bacterial flagellar motor. J Mol Biol 258: 270-285.
11. Götz, R., and Schmitt, R. (1987) Rhizobium meliloti swims by unidirectional, intermittent rotation of right-handed flagellar helices. J Bacteriol 169: 3146-3150.
12. Götz, R., Limmer, N., Ober, K., and Schmitt, R. (1982) Motility and chemotaxis in two strains of Rhizobium with complex flagella. J Gen Microbiol 128: 789-798.
13. Higuchi, R. (1989) Using PCR to engineer DNA. In PCR Technology. Principles and Applications for DNA Amplification. Erlich, H.A. (ed.). New York: Stockton Press, pp. 61-70.
14. +. FEBS Lett 132: 278-280.
15. Kamberger, W. (1979) An ouchterlony double diffusion study on the interaction between legume lectins and rhizobial cell surface antigens. Arch Microbiol 121: 83-90.
16. Khan, S., Dapice, M., and Reese, T.S. (1988) Effects of mot gene expression on the structure of the flagellar motor. J Mol Biol 202: 575-584.
17. Krupski, G., Götz, R., Ober, K., Pleier, E., and Schmitt, R. (1985) Structure of complex flagellar filaments in Rhizobium meliloti. J Bacteriol 162: 361-366.
18. Lloyd, S.A., and Blair, D.F. (1997) Charged residues of the rotor protein FliG essential for torque generation in the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli. J Mol Biol 266: 733-744.
19. Lloyd, S.A., Whitby, F.G., Blair, D.F., and Hill, C.P. (1999) Structure of the C-terminal domain of FliG, a component of the rotor in the bacterial flagellar motor. Nature 400: 472-475.
20. Luria, S.E., Adams, F.N., and Ting, R.C. (1960) Transduction of lactose utilizing ability among strains of E. coli and S. dysenteriae and the properties of the transducing phage particles. Virology 12: 348-390.
21. Macnab, R.M. (1996). Flagella and motility. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella, Vol. 1. Neidhardt, F.C., Curtiss, R., III, Ingraham, J.L., Lin, E.C.C., Low, K.B., Magasanik, B., et al. (eds). Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology Press, pp. 123-145.
22. Manson, M.D., Tedesco, P., Berg, H.C., Harold, F.M., and Van der Drift, C. (1977) A protonmotive force drives bacterial flagella. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 74: 3060-3064.
23. Ochman, H., and Wilson, A.C. (1987) Evolution in bacteria: evidence for a universal substitution rate in cellular genomes. J Mol Evol 26: 74-86.
24. Olsen, G.J., Woese, C.R., and Overbeek, R. (1994) The winds of (evolutionary) change: breathing new life into microbiology. J Bacteriol 176: 1-6.
25. Platzer, J., Sterr, W., Hausmann, M., and Schmitt, R. (1997) Three genes of a motility operon and their role in flagellar rotary speed variation in Rhizobium meliloti. J Bacteriol 179: 6391-6399.
26. 3-activated response regulator CheY2. J Mol Biol 338: 287-297.
27. Sato, K., and Homma, M. (2000) Functional reconstitution of the Na(+)-driven polar flagellar motor component of Vibrio alginolyticus. J Biol Chem 275: 5718-5722.
28. Schäfer, A., Tauch, A., Jager, W., Kalinowski, J., Thierbach, G., and Pühler, A. (1994) Small mobilizable multi-purpose cloning vectors derived from the Escherichia coli plasmids pK18 and pK19: selection of defined deletions in the chromosome of Corynebacterium glutamicum. Gene 145: 69-73.
29. Scharf, B. (2002) Real-time imaging of fluorescent flagellar filaments of Rhizobium lupini H13-3: flagellar rotation and pH-induced polymorphic transitions. J Bacteriol 184: 5979-5986.
30. Scharf, B.E., Fahrner, K.A., and Berg, H.C. (1998) CheZ has no effect on flagellar motors activated by CheY13DK106YW. J Bacteriol 180: 5123-5128.
31. Scharf, B., Schuster-Wolff-Bühring, H., Rachel, R., and Schmitt, R. (2001) Mutational analysis of Rhizobium lupini H13-3 and Sinorhizobium meliloti flagellin genes: importance of flagellin A for flagellar filament structure and transcriptional regulation. J Bacteriol 183: 5334-5342.
32. Schmitt, R. (2002) Sinorhizobial chemotaxis: a departure from the enterobacterial paradigm. Microbiology 148: 627-631.
33. Schmitt, R. (2003) Helix rotation model of the flagellar rotary motor. Biophys J 85: 843-852.
34. - bacteria using a genetically modified sacRB gene as positive selection marker. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 38: 615-618.
35. Simon, R., O'Connell, M., Labes, M., and Pühler, A. (1986) Plasmid vectors for the genetic analysis and manipulation of rhizobia and other gram-negative bacteria. Methods Enzymol 118: 640-659.
36. Sourjik, V., and Schmitt, R. (1996) Different roles of CheY1 and CheY2 in the chemotaxis of Rhizobium meliloti. Mol Microbiol 22: 427-436.
37. Sourjik, V., Sterr, W., Platzer, J., Bos, I., Haslbeck, M., and Schmitt, R. (1998) Mapping of 41 chemotaxis, flagellar and motility genes to a single region of the Sinorhizobium meliloti chromosome. Gene 223: 283-290.
38. Thomas, D.R., Morgan, D.G., and DeRosier, D.J. (1999) Rotational symmetry of the C ring and a mechanism for the flagellar rotary motor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96: 10134-10139.
39. Zhou, J., Lloyd, S.A., and Blair, D.F. (1998) Electrostatic interactions between rotor and stator in the bacterial flagellar motor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 6436-6441.